From August 3, 2026, Google will use IP addresses from UK, EEA and Switzerland users for ad measurement and personalization. It lands as the ICO weighs new consent rules, and years after Google itself called using such signals to identify devices "wrong." [...]

A newly discovered data leak dubbed "FortiBleed" has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs at organizations worldwide. [...]

Account takeovers are rising as attackers bypass traditional defenses through phishing, session hijacking, and MFA fatigue. Specops Software explores how device trust and continuous verification help reduce account takeover risk. [...]

India has banned Telegram until June 22 after the app was used to circulate leaked exam papers. CEO Pavel Durov accuses telecom Reliance of BGP hijacking that disrupted the app as far away as the UAE. Here's what happened, and how to get around the block with an MTProto proxy. [...]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to patch a maximum-severity flaw in the Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor (JCE) plugin that is being actively exploited in the wild. [...]

Microsoft confirmed that it's working on a security patch for a Defender zero-day vulnerability named "RoguePlanet," disclosed one week ago. [...]

Kodak has confirmed that it's working with external cybersecurity experts to investigate a security breach after hackers gained access to some of the company's data. [...]

At least 15 malicious plugins found on the JetBrains Marketplace were designed to steal AI API keys from developers. [...]

A new Android banking trojan named Rokarolla is targeting 217 banking and cryptocurrency applications using an extensive set of 137 commands. [...]

Threat actors are abusing Steam Workshop, Valve's community hub for downloading game-related content, to push various malware hidden in wallpaper packages. [...]

Opening a new social media account in the UK will soon mean proving you're over 16 with an ID upload or a facial age scan, under a government ban on under-16s taking effect in spring 2027. Security experts warn the age checks are easy to circumvent and create new data-breach risks. [...]

GhostTree uses recursive NTFS junctions to generate vast numbers of valid Windows file paths. Varonis explains how the technique could cause Microsoft Defender folder scans to never complete, leaving malware undetected. [...]

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned that Americans lost $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, with reported losses nearly tripling since 2020. [...]

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

• This week’s question: Is ‘ripen at home’ fruit the supermarkets’ idea of a joke?

I’ve been struggling to get my head around the idea that a passkey, which can be a pin on your phone, or facial recognition, can be safer than using a complicated password and two-factor authentication.

I get that having something unique to your device, not stored on a company’s server, is unphishable and less hackable by cybercrims, but what if your phone is nicked and someone guesses the password? And what if you lose your phone?

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Tech company says it ‘caught and disrupted’ NSO Group’s attempts to access accounts in Jordan and Lebanon

A spyware firm has been targeting WhatsApp users with malicious links in contravention of a US court order forbidding it from doing so, Meta has said.

In a post, Meta said WhatsApp had “caught and disrupted spear phishing attempts” by NSO Group, which a spokesperson said targeted a handful of users in Jordan and Lebanon. It had also caught the group creating “test accounts and groups” on WhatsApp.

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WhatsApp has detected and stopped spear-phishing campaigns allegedly conducted by the NSO Group after investigating user reports of social engineering attacks. [...]

Gogs has patched a critical security zero-day flaw that can allow attackers to compromise Internet-facing instances and access any repositories (including private ones). [...]

Attackers can chain three already fixed vulnerabilities in the Ubiquiti UniFi OS server to execute remote code with root privileges and without authentication. [...]

Security teams are increasingly overwhelmed by alert fatigue, infrastructure maintenance, and complex hybrid environments. This article explores how Wazuh Cloud helps simplify SIEM/XDR operations through managed infrastructure, automated scaling, and AI-driven security analysis. [...]

Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point has released security updates to patch a critical flaw affecting Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access deployments, which was exploited in zero-day attacks. [...]